Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

cynic

IG still the same when i logged in , page came up saying sever was down

aldo - certainly the L2 dealer site is working ...perhaps try logging out of the IG site and start again .... i've just tried the www.igmarkets.com and that also works as well as getting into my a/c from there

yes i am indeed in dubai, and damn hot it is today too
fortunately i am able to do all my e-mails and catch up with clients from a site which has its fair share of pulchritude

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i haven't posted on advfn since being here, as i've seen no prompts suggesting there was something to which i should respond

Mentor.

Are you stirring?

Manuel, was taught how to stir his own pot noodles.

8-)

i'm afraid mentor's even pretty ineffectual at that

Conservatives lead at 1

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 21st April -

Con 35%, Lab 34%, LD 7%, UKIP 13%, GRN 5%;

Whoopee!

cynic

the trading platform is ok , but the drop down when i tick to edit postion or view a ticket does not work now

The claim that over a million people are using Trussell Trust food banks is inaccurate. It comes from confusing the number of different people using Trussell Trust food banks in a year with the number of times they use the food banks.

The Trussell Trust collect their data from the vouchers used by people referred to their food banks. If one voucher feeds a family of 4 people, that’s 4 instances. If the same family visit again next week, that’s another 4 instances. The Trussell Trust say that on average people needed two food bank vouchers annually, so the number of people using food banks is likely to be around half of the 1.1 million figure.

After being contacted by Full Fact, the Trussell Trust have added a note explaining that “these are not all unique users” to their latest press release but this has not avoided widespread confusion. For example:

The Guardian: “Nearly 1.1 million people received at least three days of emergency food from the trust’s 445 food banks in 2014-15″.

The Daily Mail: “The country’s biggest food bank organisation yesterday claimed the number of people claiming free meal packages from its branches passed a million last year”.

Supply is not the same as demand

The rise in uses of Trussell Trust food banks came with a rise in the number of food banks themselves: from 56 food banks in 2009 to 445 food banks in 2014. This represents a major expansion of the Trust into new areas. The Trust served 29 UK local authorities (£) in 2009 but that number increased to 251 by 2013.

The increase in supply doesn’t necessarily reflect an increased demand for emergency food. There may be people in need of emergency food in the past who wouldn’t have shown up in the Trust’s figures because there was no Trussell Trust food bank nearby.

With the GE just over 2 weeks away I thought the market would be more volatile/nervous than it has been, although there is still time for the indices to plunge on the prospect of Nicola Sturgeon running the UK.
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Without wishing to reduce the plight of those having to use food banks, let's not also forget it is in the Trussell Trusts interest to be seen to be well used.
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George,

In a perverse kind of way, I think the market is thinking that no outright majority for either party = no contentious laws being passed for 5 years = stability and a maintaining of the status quo. They've seen that the last 5 years of Conservative/Lib Dem government haven't actually been that bad, and they're prepared for more of something similar in whatever guise.

The bookies are pricing Conservatives at 285/286 seats, Labour at 270 seats, Lib Dems at 25/26 seats and the SNP at 49/50 seats, so you'll be looking at centre ground laws being passed, and that's about it. Ed's not gonna get his mansion tax, Cameron's not gonna get his EU referendum, Sturgeon's not gonna get rid of Trident, so what's there to worry about?

Trussell Trust food banks numbers are a good advert for what the UK would be under the Nasty Party, if by a mistake they were elected!

It would show tory party values and why they are the Nasty Party!

aldo - on the L2 platform you can certainly edit stops/limits

must sign off very shortly as battery now nearly dead

Fred1new

re - Are you stirring?

me noooooo way, only to see how the 2 old friends they are now tearing each other apart .
and the lies are coming thin and fast like there is no tomorrow from both sides

I had it well documented before, and as the day past by is getting more and more apparent

"must sign off very shortly as battery now nearly dead"... More like time for a kip -):

Hi Hilary you may well be right, but if Ed & Nic get to govern then numerically, based on the figures quoted above, they would have an advantage which in my view would not result in stability.
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Manuel,

Which battery?

Yours, or the laptop's?

Maybe Boris will get some steam up during these coming last few days so as to get the 22 seats needed for their majority.

Our two votes for Andrea Leadsom went out in yesterday's post.

Has Boris got a new girl friend?